What do you do with your Gentoo box?

splakdatter · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 28 Location: Stroop, NL

Do Gentoo'ers do anything with their gentoo box other than recurse through interminable iterations of emerge rsync -up system -up world emerge [fill in blank] followed by long periods of dithering and strumming as the compile scribble and scratch scrolls off the screen?

If so, then please describe what productive work your gentoo box does -- is it corporate web, email, file, print server?

carmiac · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 46

I use Gentoo as my home desktop. Which means I:
surf
email
write reports
play games
play music
play dvds
occasionally do "real work" using Matlab and octave
write the occasional line of code
chat
etc,etc

bradcarter · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 53

I am an engineering student supporting myself partly with web development (PHP mainly) that basically sums up things actually I use it for my school work, other then CAD, and for my web development

So I do run a test server and mySQL

Other then that Gentoo is feeding my tweeking needs

I like to fiddle

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1734 Location: Kentucky

While the "dithering and strumming as the compile scribble and scratch scrolls off the screen" is happening in a terminal window I usually work on my own little pet projects, surf the web, post to newsgroups, play games, watch movies, etc. Same as most people do with their home workstations I would guess.

Matje · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 12:31 pm Post subject:

I sometimes take it for a walk...

Lovechild · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 12:37 pm Post subject:

Break it... I'm very good at that....

pYrania · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 1:02 pm Post subject:

setiathome
err..

i have a gentoo router (p1 150

) running .. seti
and of course my desktop comp has a gentoo system
so i am keeping it busy with developing/programming and xmms, streaming bassdrive... and seti of course :roll:

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 1:45 pm Post subject:

every thing...except sex :roll:

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KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

- web, irc, mail and anything else on the net
- playing dvds, divx, audio-cd and burning cdroms...
- making original artwork or customizing with gimp
- the rare office document
- doing some real work (statistics with R, a bit of scilab)
- a few games when I'm bored to death
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bpkri · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 2:01 pm Post subject:

Gentoo is my desktop system and main OS. If it weren'T for my sister I'd get rid of windows completely. I use gentoo for:
writing documents
calculation
irc
web
email
games
and soon: Development

I also use gentoo for:
blaming someone/something if anything goes wrong (I'll find something that doesn't work as I want to, easily

)
And even sex.

...

Okay - I admit, the last one was just kidding.

Carlos · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 2:35 pm Post subject: Obligatory joke

sulu · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 2:49 pm Post subject:

My Gentoo-box runs all the time.

I use it for
- c-programing (most important)
- surfing
- mailing
- ut2003 (but i'm far too slow for it ;-)

)

Sulu

progster · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 271

what a normal desktop user does with his computer:
-listen to music
-surf the web
-chat on irc
-check news servers
-mail a bit
-play some (the very few) native linux games

That's about it I think, well that and programming... but that isn't something every desktop user does. I haven't emerge rsync etc in a few months, haven't ever "emerge -u world". My box is stable as it is, if there's an update for an app that's a bit buggy I emerge or if there's a security update... but more than that... not really ;-)

~Progster

mxskweeb · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 28 Location: phoenix

In addition to surfing, email and the other typical stuff I mainly use it for web development (LAMP style) and for learning how to configure a better Linux system.

pizen · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:23 pm Post subject:

Like others have said, I use it for normal desktop stuff. I run gentoo on all my systems so I have gentoo desktop boxes and gentoo server boxes. I also do the development thing on my desktop gentoo.

eryvile · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 234 Location: europe

gman · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 8

I use it in my dorm room as a server. I have it running my website and hosting files for people. It runs apache, mysql, pure-ftpd, tinydns, etc. No X on it.
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really · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 430 Location: nowhere

surfing
electronic-mail
messengers like amsn ickle....
ripping/encoding newlyest baught cd, (only non-pop music, music alike <my signature>)
burn cds
write documents for school
learning c coding
setting up an ftp from time to time for my friends to download my listen to oggs
reading ebooks
playing games some times
trying out screensavers when im bored ...
compiling stuff.
and so on.

i do what ever i whould have done on anyother pc/mac/other arch capable of doing the above mentioned.
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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

web
programming
real work all too often :(
music
tv
movies
foot rest
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ebrostig · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 12:09 am Post subject:

Work!
I use Gentoo exclusively at work. This of course includes mail, web, irc, aim (irc and aim are tools we us in work, have internal servers we connect to).
Several Java based applications
Several browser based applications (Oracle Apps)
Database programmin (Oracle - PL/SQL)
Database testcases
C-programming (database programming, yeah well,

)

At home, everything above

(Using VPN to connect to work)
+ news and some other special apps.

Erik

lemming · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Kanab, UT

Until something wacky happenned to the hardware, I was using Gentoo for showing off the cats from the cat shelter I volunteer for. (cat shows, charity events, etc...)

Haven't had time to look into it. :cry:

The other machines at home will be converted to Gentoo in the not so distant future.
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bhun · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 70

-java progamming (primarily busy looking at j2ee, taglibs, and creating an user space tomcat/pgsql app, trying out a bit of C with jni)
-www.topcoder.com (but my rating sucks

It's always from 200AM/300-AM + 1.5 hrs)
-banking
-find documentation, looking for inspiration to create java apps
-e-mail/chat

elboricua · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 5:38 am Post subject:

On my main box, I use Gentoo mainly for surfing the web, checking email, getting work done and gaming. Of course I also use to admin my other boxes via ssh.

My other boxes:
1. Acts as a firewall
2. Acts as an NFS/SAMBA server mostly for backups. I keep a backup of all my important stuff there. my /home gets backed up to it once a day. My roommate uses a windows box and I let him backup his stuff to it via samba.
3. A web/Mail server. Internal only. Mostly I use it to play around with PHP, and XML coding, and I check to see how it looks on my main box.... More for learning than anything else.
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Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

I use it for everything except gaming. *sigh*

nempo · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 10:25 am Post subject: